Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts

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News about Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

May. 25, 2015

Recent tax filings reveal that former Lincoln Center president Reynold Levy received increased bonus of $600,000 in 2013, his last year with organization, in appreciation of his performance on the job. MORE

Apr. 16, 2015

Reynold Levy, former president of Lincoln Center, tells story of how Lincoln Center's $1.2 billion renovation was achieved in his book They Told Me Not to Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center; also specifically names people he thinks are responsible for hardships of various New York cultural institutions. MORE

Mar. 24, 2015

ABC News icon Barbara Walters played crucial go-between who helped forge relationship between West Coast entertainment mogul David Geffen and Lincoln Center chairwoman Kathrine G Farley that resulted in Geffen's $100 million donation toward renovating Avery Fisher Hall in exchange for naming rights; question remains as to whether Geffen's gift, which amounts to only 20 percent of projected renovation cost, is enough to justify naming rights in perpetuity. MORE

Mar. 5, 2015

Entertainment mogul David Geffen will donate $100 million to help fund renovation of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, home of New York Philharmonic; after lengthy naming rights battle with Fisher family, concert building will be renamed David Geffen Hall in September 2015, with plans to start construction in 2019; gift highlights Geffen's entryway into small list of elite donors that support New York City's greatest cultural institutions. MORE

Mar. 1, 2015

Lincoln Center's Great Voices on Film series will include 2010 Vienna State Opera production of Handel's Alcina. MORE

Feb. 26, 2015

Photographs document Lincoln Center's final year as home of New York Fashion Week. MORE

Feb. 5, 2015

Flurry of cross-institutional collaboration at Lincoln Center marks stark departure from days in which New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet competed fiercely over resources and audiences; striking example of trend will be Philharmonic's full staging of several operas. MORE

Jan. 15, 2015

Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic announce partnership to mount several fully staged opera productions; officials from both institutions express hope that partnership will help smooth way for planned renovation of Avery Fisher Hall, the Philharmonic's home. MORE

Nov. 28, 2014

Agreement on part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to pay Avery Fisher's descendants $15 million for permission to expunge his name from Philharmonic Hall is reminder that naming rights agreement granted in perpetuity do not, despite labeling, necessarily last forever. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

Lincoln Center, home of New York Philharmonic, is paying family of Avery Fisher $15 million for permission to relinquish their name on Avery Fisher Hall, and lure a large donor with promise of renovating and renaming the orchestra's home; unusual agreement speaks to draw of naming opportunities as staple tool for arts organizations. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

Thirty-six solar panels are installed on the roof of the Rose Building in Manhattan, representing another step in the Lincoln Center's campaign to go green. MORE

Sep. 9, 2014

New York Philharmonic is planning campaign to raise cash to fund long-delayed renovation of Avery Fisher Hall, now slated for 2019, and double its endowment. MORE

Sep. 4, 2014

Lincoln Center, initially hailed as new and more polished home to New York Fashion Week, has lost its luster for some, leading to nostalgia for former Bryant Park location. MORE

Jul. 28, 2014

Anthony Tommasini reviews Sila: The Breath of the World, new work by John Luther Adams commissioned jointly for the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Out of Doors series premiering at Lincoln Center's Hearst Plaza. MORE

Jul. 7, 2014

Five regular participants in Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing outdoor dance festival describe their attraction to dance and their choice of footwear. MORE

Feb. 8, 2014

Zachary Woolfe observes that performances in Art Song on Film, four-part video series at Lincoln Center celebrating lieder music, suggest that lieder recitals demand a public construction of self. MORE

Jan. 3, 2014

Oct. 25, 2013

The box office at the David Rubenstein Atrium will sell discount tickets to a week’s worth of events at New York City Center, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall and Miller Theater. MORE

Aug. 4, 2013

Composer David Lang's the whisper opera, having its New York premiere at Lincoln Center, is based on truths and confessions culled from the Web; aims to address opera's uneasy relationship with technology. MORE

Aug. 3, 2013

City Room blog; officials of Lincoln Center surprise the one-millionth person to cross the threshold at center's David Rubenstein Atrium; it is another moment in the unlikely transformation of the atrium, public space that was once the dank lobby of a nearby apartment building; redesign of space under grant from Rubenstein included features like media wall and 42-foot-wide video screen. MORE

Jul. 6, 2013

Midsummer Night Swing, which Lincoln Center planned as one-summer event, is now an institution in its 25th year; New Yorkers fell in love with music, dancing and outdoor vibe. MORE

May. 21, 2013

The suit says that Damrosch Park is being improperly used for commercial purposes, limiting public access. MORE

May. 16, 2013

Jed Bernstein, theater producer who led Broadway's trade group, is named president of Lincoln Center; much of his job will be to court donors in order to raise nearly half of the performing arts center's $118 million budget every year. MORE

May. 11, 2013

May. 10, 2013

The Lincoln Center spring gala raises $9.4 million, a record for the organization. MORE

May. 6, 2013

Lincoln Center president Reynold Levy sets out to raise more than $8 million for its spring gala, fund-raising finale to close out his 11 years there; amount, if raised, would be a record for a Lincoln Center gala and among higher sums ever raised for an event by a New York City cultural organization. MORE

Apr. 23, 2013

This year’s series will lean heavily on established New York big bands. MORE

Jan. 27, 2013

Character Study column on Maria Mansfield, who has been conducting tours of Lincoln Center for 45 years; tours, full of Mansfield's risque and affectionate opinions, double as one-woman show. MORE

Nov. 29, 2012

Lincoln Center solicits new proposals for a radical redesign of Avery Fisher Hall rather than proceeding with a previous plan, which has been stalled for years; New York Philharmonic will relocate for two seasons when construction begins in 2017. MORE

Nov. 28, 2012

Lincoln Center Film Society cuts ties with the Romanian Cultural Institute after Romanian group comes under attack by its new conservative government in Bucharest, thus jeopardizing film festival they had sponsored together; instead, Lincoln Center joins forces with new, unofficial nongovernment entity called Romanian Film Initiative to host festival, called Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, which is scheduled to open in late November 2012. MORE

Sep. 25, 2012

Reynold Levy, the president of Lincoln Center who shepherded an ambitious redevelopment of its 16-acre campus during hard economic times, will step down at the end of 2013. MORE

Jul. 16, 2012

Michael Kimmelman reviews the Clair Tow Theater, small performance space designed by architect Hugh Hardy that is set on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. MORE

Jun. 22, 2012

Roberta Smith anticipates the screenings of Christian Marclay's 24-hour film The Clock in the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center. MORE

Feb. 15, 2012

Group of residents living near Manhattan's Lincoln Center, along with nonprofit group NYC Park Advocates, send a 'cease and desist' letter to city officials and to Lincoln Center demanding the termination of special events at Damrosch Park, situated on the center's campus; residents argue that a full calendar of events like New York Fashion Week has made the space off-limits to the public nearly 10 months of the year and demand that it be returned to its proper use as a city park. MORE

Nov. 28, 2011

New York City Ballet's media suite, media control room installed as part of $107 million Lincoln Center renovation to help the ballet record its performances for digital archiving and theater broadcasts, has languished unused; ballet officials say delay stems from labor negotiations between stagehands' union and theater management. MORE

Nov. 19, 2011

Sarah Maslin Nir Nocturnalist column on various social events around New York City, including gala at Avery Fisher Hall to celebrate architectural updates to Lincoln Center. MORE

Nov. 13, 2011

Rafael Vinoly, architect who designed Jazz at Lincoln Center, describes his typical Sunday routine. MORE

Oct. 31, 2011

Lincoln Center is scheduled to formally announce 2012 season of its American Songbook concert series, a typically eclectic lineup that is to feature several Tony Award winners and a group of celebrated pop composers. MORE

Oct. 27, 2011

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren offers surprisingly humble insights about his success in interview with Oprah Winfrey at Lincoln Center; onstage conversation, held in front of a celebrity audience, was part of benefit that raised $7 million for Lincoln Center and the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention. MORE

Apr. 29, 2011

Lincoln Center officials are expected to sign a three-year agreement to advise a Chinese state-owned company on cultural programming for its proposed arts complex in Tianjin, China. MORE

Apr. 28, 2011

Lincoln Center is taking measures to ensure that its elevated public lawn, which had developed brown spots due to dehydration problems in 2010, is a healthy swath of turf as its opening date draws near. MORE

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